Journal of Language and Translation

the journal of language and translation (jlt) was established in 2008 and is a double-blind peer-reviewed, open-access quarterly publication by the faculty of persian literature and foreign languages of islamic azad university, south tehran branch. jlt has been accredited the academic/research ranking in letter no. 3/18/308618 dated march 17, 2018 issued by the director-general of iran’s ministry of science, research, and technology bureau of policy and planning. jlt provides a forum for professionals in translation and efl/esl studies to share their research findings and explore ideas and relationships in the field. the scope of the journal includes papers in a broad theoretical and methodological context that stress, inter alia, the following subjects: second language teaching/learning, translation studies, linguistics, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, and language performance assessment. jlt only considers full scientific/academic research articles (empirical research studi